the sale season gets underway in the u.k. but despite the very british items up for grabs a massive slice of the profits go straight into the hands of foreign owned companies. despite international objections continues to push for widespread settlement expansion east jerusalem and occupied territories in retaliation to the palestinians recently you won a status upgrade. than the one theater rayon terrorist organization gets backing from washington or port from terror ron wyden many of that believe little has really trained within the group.

around the world this is all see with me your national holiday thanks for joining as far as the sale season is underway in britain where millions of people still indulging themselves with some festive holiday shopping they will do they know that much of the money they thought they were spending on goods made by u.k. companies actually goes into the pockets of foreign owners. has the story for us. proud to be british brits and terrorists alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason that things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these

british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy here recently premier foods not only selling off. pick or selling off. some butter and also closing down some of their hovis manufacturing and it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great news for investors although is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around

the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control in supply and not made in london there maybe in paris in the or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was boots the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds of corporation tax and they reduced that to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases i think in terms of the eighty or other forms of taxation that has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments

scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell poly boy art see london. defying international criticism is rowe has announced plans to build more settlements homes in occupied east jerusalem it brings the total number of settlements approved in the last few weeks to five and a half thousand that is housing are from his policy here what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred

secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building it will have undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move so it is well was engaging in to quote

a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansion this plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to right wing voters and according to the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into an election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the term. capital of the state of israel and will continue to build there a united ireland he said places a wide national agreement and so i think this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the

fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building. and as parliamentary elections are fast approaching some experts say there's going to be much more talk about settlements settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the islet peace and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided about two hundred thousand by the with the in jerusalem and these are total agreement with the palestinian side of the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed

delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close they just sent to the green line would become part of it is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of reports from italy eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offer your show on it which is really back your good approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between. one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go over and be accepted and we'll be i've and recall that it's i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of. the u.s. government spreads its military wings the pentagon is seeking the support of u.s.

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this is also a welcome back as a run tries to keep its economy afloat and meds increasing western sanctions the country could be facing another problem this september the year was to get a rain the militant group b. and e. k. also is tara block list and labeled it an opposition exile. because they didn't commit any terror acts for over a decade and want a peaceful regime change in iran also has maria i want to tell ron to learn what people that think of the move. mohamed shows me his box of handmade treasures

earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger and i still get headaches when i remember this time around valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he'd joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month prisoners but mohamed refused them they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linked to the

killing of american citizens and welcomed the us embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after reason make revolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics was generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one thousand nine hundred seventy and he joined america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq is still viewed ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic on this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around

and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that campaign i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying we came a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main support of beasts to reduce groups or mr carter's because they use from that through to through political ads. new yorker reporter in his article called our men iran reveals how members of em ek were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as

a tool and out of those question about ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed and b.k. was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service massage and by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a terror victim an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as midan job is a very poor and vibrant place many people pass through here well head into the mountains resort outside to here on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognised as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely

to keep his brutal ways to refinish an r.t. from iran. to some other news from around the world a plane carrying higher ranking military personnel crashed in southern cousin stan killing all twenty seven people on board the military aircraft was on route from the capital astronaut and came down twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of kent local media reports say they pilots were trying to make an emergency landing in a situation to the crash has been launched. at least seventeen people have reportedly been killed in fighting in oil pipeline in yemen the violence that broke out one of the only bond as trikes attempted to secure the oil grid and repair damage caused by local militants last month the country's pipelines are often sabotaged by islamist fighters causing fuel shortages on slashing export earnings. and syrian rebels claimed to have seized

a small town near the turkish border and government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters are now thought to be in control of large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases and that's what is now underway on. washington and so are eyeing a lucrative military contract south korea is expected to purchase for high altitude spy drones from the two hours worth an estimated one point two billion dollars the deal has to get the green light from congress before it can be signed alt so south korea has been under america's military umbrella for decades with almost thirty thousand u.s. troops currently stationed in the country motions and recently approved expansion of south korea's missile range meaning that its warheads can now reach any corner of its northern neighbor political analyst says the drone deal will only add fuel to the tension on the korean peninsula. if congress these days to be seen to show

it is. to militarize them so the south korean border they could also potentially be used to monitor north koreans and north korea's nuclear facilities however we have to remember that north korea has warned many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korean airspace this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of the latest offering elections the president will let him hey she campaigned on a model of. reaching. into the relations with north korea one will get easier in pyongyang but i think what this shows is that by purchasing these drones or having the intention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in any meaningful way. a divisive election campaign is looming over egypt with a new parliamentary vote to take place within the next two months it comes after

president morsi signed into effect the country's first post mubarak constitution pass or to stage a referendum the yes vote was confirmed on tuesday after an official probe into allegations of vote rigging turned up nothing but a reaction a furious opposition protesters took to the streets of cairo liberals claim the islamic drafted constitution betrays the revolution and sidelines the rights of women and minorities in egypt and one middle east expert told r.c. the islamists will lose power they fail to meet the people's demands this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot use all the digits in column went and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other subjects as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democratic elections brought the slowest forty's to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the papa

says it would not have a guarantee a better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent to their vote is declining and going down mainly because they are not opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. and on our website for you right now a thirty three ton of fish tank filled with sharks suddenly burst in a shanghai shopping center and go the details and media for you that. also online a report on the latest study from russia's far east that could potentially allow scientists to bring light to the red planet find out what to get out.

with only days left until the end of the year he recalls the most significant global events of the past twelve months and today we look back at the american presidential election on the memorable debates that preceded it. we have been running the election of close to your ears more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show is so outrageous that truck so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the their party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in

a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy. is a debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system the seriousness of all the parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know of the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they were pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion ideas that still fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever right here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere

they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election quote that would be the pie in the sky is that the day i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an on going to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties just parties into that debate but you're blocking traffic not as avatar personality types i think you. think i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for and. we have

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